TY - BOOK AU - Reda Mahmoud Mohamed AU - Hesham Hosni Abdelwahab , AU - Hoda Abdelkader Ghanem , AU - Mohamed Abdelhamid , TI - Calcium sensitizing agents in the failing heart / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reda Mahmoud Mohamed , KW - Calcium sensitizers KW - Heart failure KW - Levosimendan N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Anaesthesia; Issued also as CD N2 - For acute worsening of heart failure, the short-term administration of levosimendan, a new inotrope with calcium sensitizing properties, appears to be safer than dobutamine. Also, in acute heart failure after myocardial infarction, levosimendan improved symptoms and halved mortality during the first 72h, a difference in mortality which was maintained over the nex16 months UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -